ELA+Kindergarten+Lesson+4

Topic: Community Helpers

Common Core Standards: RL.K.1---With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about key details in a text. RI.K.1---With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about key details in a text. RI.K.7---With prompting and support, describe the relationship between illustrations and the text in which they appear. RF.K.1d---Recognize and name all upper and lowercase letters of the alphabet. RF.K.3a---Demonstrate basic knowledge of one-to-one letter sound correspondences by producing the primary or many of the most frequent sound for each consonant. SL.K.4---Describe familiar people, places, things and events and with prompting and support, provide additional details. L.K.1a---Print many upper and lowercase letters.

Suggested Student Objectives:
 * Identify words that begin with /m/.
 * Learn that the letter //Mm// stands for /m/.
 * Write letter Mm.
 * Build background on community helpers before reading, "Everybody Works."

Suggested Additional Readings: Officer Buckle and Gloria by Peggy Rathmann Trainstop by Barbara Lehman Fire! Fire! by Gail Gibbons Community Helpers from A to Z by Boobie Kalman and Niki Walker Jobs Around My Neighborhood: Oficios en mi vecindario by Gladys Rosa-Mendoza and Ann Iosa

Resource Links: [|Community Helpers Bubble Map] [|Community Helpers and Transportation] [|Police Lapbook] [|Community Helper Puppets] [|Community Helpers Video]

Activities: 1. Show children posters and other photos of men and women doing a variety of interesting jobs. Have children identify the job shown and ask questions about the picture. (ex: Why is this job important? What kind of tools do you need for this job?)

2. Have children choose a job and act out that job so the other children can guess.

3. Give them four choices of what type Community Helper they wanted to be when they grew up. Take a survey and complete their own individual graphs.

4. Basic Dump Truck: __Materials:__ 1. Glue 2. Construction Paper 3. Tissue Paper

__Instructions: [| Dump Truck Picture]__ 1. Cut several basic shapes such as rectangle, square and circle. We also shredded some tissue paper. 2. Use a glue stick to stick the shapes. 3. Paste the shapes onto construction paper. 4. Spread some glue on the top part of the dump truck. 5. Stick the tissue paper on and you are done.

Assessments: Students will be able to draw a community helper, label it and tell how that person helps in the community. (police officer--helps keep people safe)

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